Don’t miss the Clipperton Island DXpedition going on NOW

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The Clipperton Island DXpedition has about 5 days remaining for their operation.  Signals into Rhode Island have been exceptionally good.  WB4SON reports working them on 160/80/40/30/20/17/15 and 12 meters using all modes (CW, SSB, Digital) in the past two days.  So far nothing has been heard on 10 meters during the times they are active on that band, but conditions on 10 meters have been quite poor recently. (Ed: Bob reports that he managed to work them on 10 meter CW as well)

TX5K has a wonderful real-time website that informs people what bands and modes are being used, and lets you know within a minute or two that you have a valid contact in their log.  Check it out here:  http://www.dxa2.org/

For those of you interested in what goes into a $250,000 DXpedition, you might find the book written to describe this DXpedition interesting.

This is the same gang that will be putting on a $1,000,000+ DXpedition to the Antarctic’s Heard Island next Jan/Feb.

Club Meeting Monday March 11th, Red Cross building, 7PM

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We hope everyone is surviving the perpetual snow. Please hope for warm & dry weather for Monday, March 11, so we can have our regular meeting at the Red Cross facility at 7 PM. Please be advised that this meeting will also be a special election for the office of President and Vice President, which were recently vacated for personal reasons.

Presentation: The History of Digital Modes by Ted Wrobel, W1GRI

Technician Class: Sign up HERE

Technician Class to be held by NCRC starting April 1st

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NCRC is offering a Technician class at the ARC building starting April 1st and running through April 29th.  Classes will be held from 7PM until 9PM.  The ARRL VE’s will be giving the exam on May 6th (same time and location).  The cost is $10 for study material and $15 for the exam.  A portion of the study material cost is being underwritten by a IBM Technology Grant (thanks Mike!).

Interested people are asked to go to the following link to register for the class:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFFxYVM2b3F6TWRnVlgxQTdlbmtiTFE6MQ#gid=0